Samstag, 18. November 2017

Dear
friends,

late
Wednesday afternoon I was absolutely furious. I'm not anymore. Now
I'm but sad and disappointed.

What
has happened?

Wednesday
afternoon I was scrolling down my facebook feed when a picture of the
Happy Granny Square Bag caught my attention. One of the sites
I follow shared a link to the post of another site. As this link
showed a picture of my bag I followed the link and ended on a site
describing the Happy Granny Square Bag.

Mittwoch, 1. November 2017

Dear
friends,

it's
the 1. of November. Guess it's time to start thinking about the
Advent as well as the Christmas season. Sometimes I already had
gathered all Christmas presents – not this year though...

Having
two days off I spent the first one (yesterday) on Etsy, uploading
items. Uploading Christmas Baubles, to be precise!

The
reason wasn't only the oncoming Christmas Fair / Open Day, but the
fundamental question: Shall we have a Christmas tree – yes or no?

Except
for last year – the living room was just too crammed cause of all
stuff we moved out of the basement after the flooding – we always
had a Christmas tree. And even though we are having some doubts
concerning Moneypenny, we'll most definitely will have a Christmas
tree this year too.

This
fundamental question answered, another question arises: what
colour-scheme or theme shall we go by? Ever since the year before
last, I can answer this question without much thought: COLOURFUL!
instead of the traditional red/green/gold.

And
that's where yesterday's zeal fits in: even though most of us have
plenty of Christmas ornaments hoarded in the attic, in the basement
or in the store room, we can always do with something new, with a
very special eye-catcher!

Now
you can either (1) make something yourself – here a the links to my
Christmas Baubles patterns

Sonntag, 22. Oktober 2017

Dear
friends,

you
haven't seen many tutorials on this page lately. As Christmas is a
time of giving, I thought could share my Christmas patterns with you.
Let's start with my current favourite: a Christmas Stocking!

Material:

scissors,
yarn needle

crochet
hook (I used a 4mm one)

yarn
(Stylecraft DK and Katia Gatsby)

Abbreviations
(UK-terms):

ch
= chain stitch

mc
= magic circle

dc
= double crochet

ss
= slip stitch

tr
= treble

Toe:

start
with mc

R1:
10 tr into mc

R2:
10x 2 tr → 20 tr

R3:
10x (2 tr + 1 tr) → 30 tr

R4:
10x [2 tr + (2x 1 tr)] → 40 tr

Foot:

R1:
40x 1 dc

R2
+ 3: 40x 1 tr

repeat
R1-2-3 four times

Heel:

fold
piece of crochet

R1-4:
20 tr

R5:

(6x
1 tr) + 4 tr + skip 2 stitches + (2x 1 ss) + 4 tr + (6x 1 tr)

you
can either join-as-you-go (see pictures) or fold heel and sew ends
together with end of thread

R6:

22
dc

weave
in ends

Shaft:

R1
+ 2: 42 tr

R3:
42 dc

Repeat
R1-2-3 five times

Cuff:

R1
+ 2 + 3: 42 tr

R4:
21x [(1 dc + ch 3 + 1 tr) in same stitch + skip 1 stitch]

As
you can see on the pictures: I made more than one...

But
one month to go till the fair: I'll keep in touch!

P.S.:
Our Flyer is ready for printout! Would be great to see you on the
26th
of November – there will be plenty of mulled wine, coffee, tea,
cocoa, cake and biscuits!

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English:My name is Marjan. I was born in Belgium in 1970. I moved to Germany in the early nineties for love's sake. Even though I got fairly disappointed some years later I never considered returning home as my children were born here in Germany. Fortunately I never did, since I never would have met my wonderful second husband. Read more here.